Liege & Lief

Fairport Convention

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Release Date 21 July 2014

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Product code

3787305

Format

Vinyl LP

Label

UMC

Includes MP3 version

Remarkably, Liege & Lief was the third album released by Fairport Convention in the calendar year of 1969, all produced by Joe Boyd. It is widely considered to be the definitive electric, British folk rock album and arguably the first ever. Six of the eight songs are radically modernised version of traditional folk tunes. Recorded less than six months after the motorway crash which killed the group’s original drummer Martin Lamble, Liege & Lief was the only album recorded by the short-lived Fairport Convention line-up of Sandy Denny – Vocals, Richard Thompson – Guitar, Simon Nicol – Guitar, Ashley Hutchings – Bass, Dave Mattacks –Drums and Dave Swarbrick – Violin and Viola. By the time Liege & Lief was released in December 1969 both Sandy Denny and Ashley Hutchings had left the group. The musicianship is outstanding, the arrangements are unique and inspiring and Denny’s singing is peerless and revelatory; the impact and influence of Liege & Lief still resonates to this day.